Released 30th November 2021 // 105 pages // 978-1-913642-74-7
 
BLOOM is a collection of love stories presented as a mixtape: each of the stories is paired with a song, its soundtrack. The stories explore romantic comedy, eroticism, joy, grief, friendship, and romance through a lens mostly centred on female protagonists. In BLOOM Becky Varley-Winter showcases these stories as colourful blooms, filmic stories inspired by the likes of Andrea Arnold, Tove Jansson, and Elena Ferrante.
 
PRAISE for BLOOM:
Tender and disorderly, the protagonists of BLOOM are women brave enough to choose adventure for themselves, even if it means renouncing the separation between reality and dream. I wanted them to teach me to do the same, so I could join them in the world Varley-Winter has constructed - so uncannily familiar to us, and comforting, but for the intensity of its colours, and landscapes, and hoping.
- Livia Franchini, Shelf Life
 
Becky Varley-Winter is the author of Bloom (Broken Sleep Books), Heroines (V. Press) and Reading Fragments and Fragmentation in Modernist Literature (Sussex Academic Press). She teaches, writes and hopes.